Tablet comparison of "System Memory"

[NimrodVern]

Hello wise people,

Is there a comparison here anywhere which shows the relative "System Memory" (The minimum amount of storage space required to run the system) requirements of various tablets?

Since my Dell Streak 7 took a dump over a year ago, I've been time-sharing other family member's Samsung Galaxy Tab 2s running JB 4.2.2. It's a good device, but the Samsung bloat-ware on it ties up an awful lot of the paltry 8 GB capacity (System memory requirement = 3.41GB)

I'm guessing that tablets running a more pure Android platform would not be such hogs. Am considering the Google Nexus 7. Wondering if anyone can share what that number is on the Nexus 7 and other devices.

Thanks

 

[dibblebill]

Galaxy Nexus 7?

Asus Nexus 7, sorry.

The Nexus 7, I think, reserves around 700MB or so for its system partition. I didn't look too closely at my mom's. My Nexus 10 uses about the same. My old Acer a500 only used around 500MB or so, and that was plenty.

For poitn of reference, my Galaxy Victory phone (Samsung) went from about 900MB free to over 1.5GB when I switched from stock to CM10

 

[NimrodVern]

Galaxy Nexus 7?

Asus Nexus 7, sorry.

Yes, Google Nexus 7 - the Asus device. My bad. I'll fix that.

Wow, only 700 MB for the system partition? That is a huge difference over the Galaxy Tab 2!

That was a pretty sweet improvement on your Victory going to CM. Thanks for that comparison.

 

[dibblebill]

Amazon.com: sidroy's review of ASUS Nexus 7 (7-Inch, 32GB) Tablet (2012)

This is a comprehensive Nexus 7 review. Don't forget that GB in the industry is measured in 1,000,000,000 bytes. A TRUE gigabyte is 2^30, or 1,073,741,824 bytes, so you DO lose some to that mistranslation by manufacturers and such. TECHNICALLY, the latter is a gibibyte, but is colloquially called a gigabyte.


EDIT: Got you a source- it has an explanation/example a bit down in the difference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte